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Maya Angelou and John Agard’s poems are both responses to someone or some people who have wronged them. John Agard sounds as though he is correcting a stranger on their use of the term “Half-Caste” and telling them exactly what he thinks is implied by these words and Maya Angelou seems to be addressing her […]

Nobody can help have feelings- they are a part of everyone. We feel differently towards an issue as different things happen to us. Feelings do not change with time. What we feel as a child stays with us even when we are older. Feelings can be positive or negative. The poets Tatamkhula Afrika and Grace […]

The romantic era rose out of and in response to the logical, more retrained forms of literature composed in the age of reason. It promoted the exploration of creativity in thinking, the joys of discovery and the enthusiasm and wonder evoked by mans complex relationship with nature. John Keats “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” […]

‘Hurricane hits England’ by Grace Nichols centres around the ‘Great Storm’ that hit England in the 1980s. It revives memories of a difficult transition from her Caribbean home to Sussex on the coast of England. ‘Hurricane’ by James Berry also concerns a hurricane, however it is set in the Caribbean where such events are more […]

I believe that poets struggle to find their true identity as they might have an ongoing battle between two, as in ‘search for my tongue’, it is about the poet who has ‘two tongues in her mouth’ which symbolizes her two cultures, which displays her two identities. In the poem, there is an ongoing battle […]

The poem ‘The Charge of the light brigade’ is written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. His inspiration for writing the poem came after he read a article in The Times newspaper, but he was not actually in this battle. I think the poem is about the war with lots of men taking place in fighting. For […]

Throughout these three poems a sense of conflict, inequality and difference is created. All three represent one form of these emotions in ways that are similar to each other and others that are different to each other. The first poem, Two Scavengers in a Truck, Two Beautiful People in a Mercedes’ is about the social […]

‘Search For My Tongue’ (‘SFMT’) and ‘Hurricanes Hit England’ (‘HHE’) both share a common theme of identity and how it influences our day-to-day life. ‘SFMT’ and ‘HHE’ together show show your cultural identity is within you; it’s not constricted to a certain place. However, the two poets show this in different ways. In SFMT, Bhatt’s […]

Both poets are showing their identity across to the reader. However they are doing it in different ways. The layout for The Class Game- Mary Casey is a monologue. A monologue is a short, alone speech. This makes it easier for the reader to understand the point of the poem and it makes it more […]

Isobel Dixon’s poem ‘Plenty’ explores childhood memories using various forms of language. This theme of childhood memories is also evident in other poems from the collection ‘Songs of Ourselves’. A connection can be made between ‘Plenty’ and “Little Boy Crying”, as both poems showcase the contrasting perceptions of children and adults. In ‘Plenty’, the children […]

In the society I live in – in the UK – everyone has freedom of speech. In the past there used to be a lot of countries in which your feelings towards something were only to be known by you. Dictatorships do not allow freedom of speech nor even a freedom to be in certain […]

In the story ‘Chemistry’, the author, Graham Swift, describes complicated relationships between a Grandfather, his daughter, her new partner and her son. Swift uses effectual symbolism to shape the stories meaning; the main one being Chemistry. Chemistry, scientifically, is the practice of the mixing of chemicals, however, if you get one measurement wrong, for example, […]

In ‘Night of the scorpion’ it is about a place where the poet’s mother was stung by mother. Nissim Ezekeil describes what happened to his mother on that night and what the reactions of people were. This all creates an image of a place in the reader’s mind. Similarly, in ‘Blessing’ the poet creates an […]

It is evident that the theme of unhappy families is central to O’ Casey’s play Juno and the Paycock. Each of the characters suffer misery and hardship. This theme is nowhere more evident than in the characters themselves. The main characters in this play are Juno, Jack, Mary and Johnny. Juno is the mother of […]

The Tell Tale Heart was an invigorating read due to its portrayal of the criminal as a highly unstable and delusional individual. Through the use of hyphens and short sentences in the opening paragraph, readers are given a rapid glimpse into the workings of his mind, which he perceives to be normal despite clear indications […]

“A short story should stimulate the imagination and hold its reader in suspense. ” Critically consider this statement with detailed reference to “Tony Kytes, the Arch-Deceiver” by Thomas Hardy and “The Unexpected” by Kate Chopin This statement is ambiguous as a short story could not be filled with suspense but still be able to stimulate […]

The poem Farmhand by James K. Baxter is about a self-conscious male who is only at easewhen working on the land. In contrast, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways by William Wordsworth focuses on a girl called Lucy who has just died; she is described using natural metaphors. Baxter wrote his poem in the 20th […]

William Golding’s novel explores many themes, in terms of what aspects of the boys’ previous lives are either absent or lost. One of the main aspects throughout the story, which is particularly obvious at the beginning of the novel, is the loss of social boundaries, such as rules and authority. Ironically, the fact that the […]

The British poet Wilfred Owen has implemented down the sonnet, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth.’ This poem got its title from another poet. This poem was set during the First World War and describes the conditions of the millions of soldiers who died fighting for their countries. Mr. Owen himself was a soldier who fought for […]

In an act of excitement, anger, adrenaline and lust the boys have all taken part in the brutal murder of Simon. In this chapter the boys have been described as animal- like “The tearing of teeth and claws. ” This builds up a picture of vicious, bloodthirsty creatures killing prey much like a pack of […]

William Golding, the renowned author, wrote the esteemed contemporary classic novel Lord of the Flies. The author of this book tells an allegorical tale about a group of young schoolboys who become stranded on an isolated island after a plane crash. Throughout the story, these boys gradually lose their innocence and descend into savagery. The […]

The pain of aging, of slowly feeling the fire and passion flickering out is portrayed in “Night Sweat” by Robert Lowell. Simply put it is of a man with an illness and his disorganised thought and feelings but deeper, there is his fear and his agony as he feels his youth and its hopes and […]